Technology

Electric Vehicles

Can Tesla and Samsung Find Salvation in Each Other?

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For Samsung, it’s a chance to finally carve out some foundry industry market share from rival chipmaker TSMC.

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Electric Vehicles

‘Flying Car’ Industry Taxis Toward Takeoff

A US-based startup, backed by Japan’s Toyota, and a freshly capitalized initiative in China could make flying cars a full reality next year.

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Policy & Power

Defense Earnings Highlight Peril, Payoff of Contracting

A slew of quarterly reports last week showed, even with analysts flashing buy recommendations, the defense sector is a sensitive one.

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Blockchain

Stablecoins Are Here to Stay. Who Stands to Gain From Them?

Companies that have been waiting on the crypto sidelines are likely about to jump in the game following the passage of the GENIUS Act.

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Big Tech

Google Search Weathers AI Storm — For Now

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The cannibalization of traditional search by AI chatbots is difficult to quantify, though by all accounts AI is already taking some nibbles.

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Industries

American, Delta Take Opposite Sides of AI Pricing Debate

In its earnings call earlier this month, Delta said that around 3% of domestic tickets sold this year have been priced by the AI tech.

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Blockchain

Goldman Sachs, BNY Bring $7 Trillion Money Market to Blockchain

The announcement comes just days after President Trump signed a law that introduces US-regulated stablecoins.

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Big Tech

Amazon, Meta Wear AI-mbitions on Their Wrists

Both Amazon and Meta have already flirted with the smartwatch space, only to ultimately abandon their initial ambitions.

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Blockchain

MicroStrategy Bolsters Its Bitcoin War Chest

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The timing of Strategy’s latest Bitcoin gains was hardly a surprise: last week also marked “Crypto Week” on Capitol Hill.

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Finance

Block Stock Pops in S&P 500 Debut

Block’s membership in the index comes as it transitions into an all-in-one finance platform that offers debit cards and loans to clients.

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Big Tech

Microsoft Stock Unfazed by Hack Threatening Thousands of Customers

The vulnerability exploited by the attack only affects on-premise Sharepoint servers, meaning clients using the cloud version are unaffected.

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Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Crushing All Rivals in Chatbot Race

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is lapping rival tech offerings in user adoption, downloaded over 900 million times on devices.

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Policy & Power

EUnomics in the Age of Trump: Defense and Crypto Edition

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Berlin-based economist Jan Philipp Fritsche explains how the new NATO defense spending pledge and US crypto legislation could impact the EU.

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